“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, whose short refresh upon the tender green, cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show, and straight is gone, as it had never been.”

About Samuel Daniel

Poet • English

Samuel Daniel was an eminent English poet, playwright, and historian of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He is best known for his sonnet sequence "Delia" and his epic poem on English history, "The Civil...